Starring Bezzie, her Mad Scientist husband and their kids Chunky, Moochie, and Baby Sister in a whirlwind "adventure" involving excitement, loss, separation, a series of financially draining transnational moves, hitting rock bottom, climbing up again, and a slight change of plans. Oh, and there will be some knitting involved too!

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Sweet Beginnings and Endings

Happy New Year!

Here's hoping 2009 turns out better than 2008. Of course it won't be all hearts and flowers, but that's OK. I hate hearts and flowers.

I'll start you off today with sweetness, and the end of my cookie roundup for Dr. Mad Scientist's New Year's Eve/New Year's Alk-a-Thon.

Cookie number four was a Brazilian coffee cookie.

Pardon my flash, it gives the cookies a bit of a washed-out look.

These are kind of a snickerdoodle meets a gingersnap type cookie. Dough that tastes like a snickerdoodle when eaten--with a hint of coffee flavor, but a bit crunchy like a gingersnap.

Then we have a cookie I had never made before--peanut butter filled chocolate cookies.

Again, recipes can be found by clicking on the cookie picture where I've put the recipe in the "description" of the picture on Flickr.

I found the recipe for these surfing cookie porn on Flickr. Two thumbs up to this recipe! They turned out delicious! My sister made an excellent observation--they're like baked buckeyes.

Finally I rounded out the sixth batch of cookies with a traditional chocolate chip cookie. I didn't take formal pictures of them. But you can see them in one of the spiffy boxes I used to pack all the cookies in for Dr. Mad Scientist.

I ended up with two large cake boxes (bought from A.C. Moore) of cookies. Both had two layers of cookies.

I wish I had kept count of how many I ended up making total--7 or 8 dozen?

Regardless it was fun!!

And yes, I realize that I had a little boy ripped from my loins a mere 10 days before I started on my cookie baking binge, but recovery hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. My last c-section was when I was a zippy 23 years old, I thought being seven years older recovery would be harder. I'd say it was about the same.

I also really thought this little monkey would be more exhausting. But he's really not (well except when he's got gas...gah!). He's settled into a nice semi-predictable routine. It also helps that unlike Chunky who never figured out how to breastfeed properly, this kid has. Which means I'm not up for two hours every feeding feeding him a bottle and then hooking myself up to the Magic Mama Milking Machine in the wee hours of the night like I was when Chunky was an infant. (My cheapassedness prevented me from feeding him formula! Screw the whole "breastmilk is better" argument, we were living on crap for salaries back then!)

19 Comments:

My people! ;-) I hate hearts and flowers too, and these days I'm always surprised when people have heard of Buckeyes, whether it's the "cookie" or the tree. The Ohio State kind is usually pretty familiar, though. Urgh. Great job on the cookie baking! Way to go!

I suck at "traditional" buckeyes and will have to try those baked ones. Yummy! Happy New Year!

The cookies look awesome. Thanks so much for hosting the K.A.Y.E. It has been fun watching all of the yarns and winners. I hope you are having a great New Year and that baby looks like he has grown a foot!

Congrats to the KAYE winners and thanks for organizing it as long as you have.

P.S. - we take orders for the cookies from now til Jan. 12th and then they get delivered in early March. Some troops sell later but we start early b/c we have fierce competition from the Long Island troops, LOL. Its like a cookie war.

The buckeye cookies look yummy. I always thing buckeye candy is a pain to make (plus, I always feel like I'm somehow saluting Ohio State, which would be a bad thing!). Maybe I'll try the cookies version.

I still think it's pretty amazing that you have that much energy for cookie baking with a newborn at home. I didn't breastfeed either of mine, and in retrospect, I should have, because they both were colicky, and ended up needing special formulas - soy for my daughter and a $200 a month prescription-only hypoallergenic formula for my son (thank goodness for WIC).

So glad to hear Carina was the final winner! She needs some yarny goodness right about now.

And I'd forgotten that you had a c-section...you're supposed to be sleeping, BF'ing, and being waited on by Dr. Mad Scientist (or cabana boys) rather than making cookies for HIM! Whatever happened to teaching him how to cook?

I am making note of a couple of these recipes, though...the gingersnaps are calling my name.

And... I'm drooling now. Those PB-filled chocolate cookies look amazing. Why did it never occur to me to surf flickr for cookie porn???

Oh, and to make things even funnier... my word verification word is lardim! Is it trying to tell me that I am lard? A lardass, maybe? Now blogger is just being rude. I'll have some cookies to soothe my bruised ego.